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what's up folks i'm out in martin and this is breaking the sat so every once in a while the stories i cover on the show become even more personal than they already are earlier this week i talked about how swat teams raid one hundred forty six homes every day terrorizing families and neighborhoods across the u.s. court of the a.c.l.u. sixty two percent of these raids are to find drugs which are mostly nonexistent consider now up to a whopping sixty five percent of the raids result in no contraband and lo and behold not even a day after i covered this story a producer of this show's house was violently raided along with her extended family amidst the ransacking of the houses officers dismantled almost everything including baby toys a stroller and even the toilet yes because of a guilt by association case of mistaken identity my producer along with her relatives have been traumatized now having to put the pieces of their lives and homes back together look i was already pissed off about this but once the police

state messes with my friends it gets personal and let's break this. the. please there they are look very hard to take a. look. at you ever had sex with that right there. that. little.

during the latest siege on gaza western media coverage has been downright shameful take a look at a couple headlines from this morning three days and israeli military offensive dubbed operation protective shield first fox news says gaza rockets aimed at israel what would you do with just fifteen seconds wow then the so-called liberal news site fox declared the tragedy never ends palestinian rockets force israeli peace conference to evacuate women on a human rights watch an organization that's supposed to be on the criticism of atrocities even it leads with indiscriminate palestinian rocket attacks almost leading to headlines framing the violence as one sided as dangerous enough nothing nothing compares to the blatant mr action displayed by a.b.c.'s diane sawyer last night we take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on israel today as israel tried to shoot them out of the sky part of the tinderbox israelis and

palestinians and here it is really family trying to salvage what they can one woman standing speechless among the ruins. see the only problem with this broadcast was of the photos sawyer showed of bombed out buildings and israeli families trying to salvage the remnants of their homes were actually palestinians and gaza city now thankfully there's been so much outrage over this egregious mistake that a.b.c. has already issued an apology on line and claims that it will make another one on air but how many people will see the correction how many watching that report saw those horrifying images and thought wow look at how much damage hamas rockets are doing see photos of israeli homes being destroyed in a similar fashion simply don't exist whatever damage is done by rockets pales in comparison to israel's aerial bombings yes we all make mistakes goodness knows i've made plenty on the show but this is not just a common or excusable mishap this journalist running

a college explains sorters baldness reporting reflects either deliberate lie by a.b.c. news or willful ignorance so severe that palestinian death and misery is invisible even when it's staring a.b.c. producers square in the face death and misery which by the way now amounts to at least ninety palestinian deaths according to gaza health ministry and over three hundred thirty nine injured at the time of this broadcast two israelis have been injured as a result of the rockets but you won't hear this disproportionality reported in the western press because palestinian deaths are just another inconvenient truth. in two thousand and ten and fidel castro made waves when he announced that cuba's socialist model was no longer working now the media latched on to this is an example of socialism failure what castro clarified soon after is that his country

is system was in dire need of reform since then cuba's decentralized state owned enterprise is a. allowed hundreds of thousands of people to open businesses in the private sector however cuban leaders have made clear that these measures do not equate to the embrace of capitalism but instead are necessary modernizations and just this week current president raul castro has reassured the cuban parliament that while they won't be immediate more reforms are on the way to combat the country's poverty and slower than expected economic growth yet despite cuba's willingness to embrace these changes the reigning view of the small island nation in the us is that of an oppressive to tell a tarion wasteland is that really the case where earlier i spoke to break in the newest addition to the team on the program bill i started by asking her to explain the concept of internationalism and cuba's role in liberation movements around the world. so a lot of times people keep thinking of cuba as the bubble but in reality from the

very beginning q but the cuban revolution was all about drawing partners in movements across the globe that were struggling to liberate themselves and i think this is most clearly exemplified in various personal involvement and cuba's involvement in angola where cuba sent up to twenty five thousand troops to assist the angolan liberation movement which at the time was fighting both there which is the belgian back to congo and south africa which was the town at the time still an apartheid state and both were being supported by the united states and in fact nelson mandela himself has pointed to a and to cast the castros as inspirations and even cited them in helping to assist and apartheid in south africa in fact there's a quote from nelson mandela we can share where he actually says the cuban people hold a special place in the hearts of the people of africa the cuban internationalist have made a contribution to african independence freedom justice unparalleled for its

principled and selfless character so i think anyone who thinks that. cuba is this shut off a nation that doesn't want to connect with the outside world or never did that pretty much sums it up right there i want to outline also how politics and also business is run in the country so again you think of like guns in the face that people no private enterprise at all and no participation in elections and in terms of business at the beginning after the revolution it's true that there are you know you had to get your license and you had to have a state state permit to put up shop however more recently the state has been struggling to fund some of these business operations they've been selecting a couple of been this is to go more cooperative route as opposed to solely state sponsored and just for our audience to understand to cooperate as a worker owner workers all have the stake in the business and they can kind of

control the future of the business and really be invested personally right if the radical idea that workers themselves own the financial stakes and make the top decisions at a company as opposed to a couple shareholders buying stocks from their beds are very different from from a yacht in the galapagos i remember they want to i would say so on another really fascinating thing about cuba i guess for better or for worse people might perceive it as there's no advertisements instead you see kind of these banners for the revolution depicting images from the uprising led by che guevara and the castro family and it just really incredible because here in the west what are we inundated with about four thousand. five thousand other times a day i mean what is that doing to us. just think about it we talked about this plenty of times on the show whether you're depressed or you're overweight there's a pill right that they want to sell you whether you're sitting at the bus stop there's an ad in your face trying to tell you what's wrong with you and what you can buy to fix yourself and while yeah most of the billboards and ads in cuba

consist of you know revolutionary slogans in artist depictions of the revolution when you think about simple the. the fact that for example socialized medicine in cuba doesn't require any pharmaceutical ads that takes away from a lot of ads and food to the fact that right i mean in a sense it could be a little bit creepy. just all say going to washington to forge washington and you know the founding fathers that's creepy but on the other hand you have to look at it's just a different way of living in society that's not run by a couple of doctrine where everything is wrong with you at the buy things to make you feel better and let's talk about the health care system you just brought up a really good point i mean i think people know that cuba has a really really good health care system or one of the top health care systems in the world what they might not know is kind of the aspects of the l g b t advances within the whole system i want to break that down right and for women as well women and l g d l g b t community have made strides in cuban healthcare

interestingly enough the fact that health care is free in cuba hasn't diminished from its quality of life expectancy in cuba is seventy seventy nine years old which is just slightly higher than the average life expectancy of an american but yes so in terms of women. birth control this is actually paid for by the socialist health care plan and ironically enough in the wake you know we're debating still having a debate in this country over whether or not the morning after pill is abortion pill when in fact cuba has invested in and providing women with this pill because they say it prevents abortion and also just the first state sponsor of gender reassignment surgery which is incredible i know that during you know fifty years ago the cuban government it was kind of institutionalized discrimination against. people as it is on many many planes in the rest of the world but fortunately i guess this country now is kind of really taken strides in leading the pack in terms

of algebra two eyes and i know that we're almost out of time but you know all of this aside. the main point here is yes there's definitely criticisms to be made of cuba there's criticism to be made of how state enterprises run how media is controlled and consolidated by the state however it is very important to mention that all of this we don't know how cuba would be if it were allowed to flourish without the sanctions and embargo on placing since the cold war and israel and the united states continuously are the only country that seem to want to really force this embargo on cuba and there's a saying in every day life that no man is an island you know no human could exist without interacting with its fellow humans and although cuba is technically an island no country is an island it can't sustain itself just considering the fact that the one of the you know the largest economies in the world is ninety two miles from its coast yet refuses to provide any sort of exchange of goods and services.

it was breaking the supporters are on now. and you know we wouldn't know what cuba were like if it were allowed to flourish on its own without the hendren something us and its allies because while the u.s. continues for cuba's this isolated rogue state obviously it still poses a threat as evident in the zoom zoom you know fake twitter installed by usa ideal in the country there are efforts to actively undermine and overthrow the castro government to this day making it clear that even the most powerful nation on earth the still terrified of a tiny island nation doing it differently. coming up i'll talk about one of the biggest safety hazards facing americans due to our addiction to oil. wealth. technology innovation. developments

around russia. that you have heard. i suspect. they would like to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crest semi-colons we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once it's all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing the define ready to join the movement then walk away from the big picture.

the shans are forces that. believe. in the finish line of the boston marathon. look at. what is happening. with an institutional insatiable excuse me demand for oil across north america increasing every day governments have made it their mission to take every shortcut imaginable to transport the substance and perhaps no place is more aware of this fact and the town of loch magon tick one back so you may remember that just over

a year ago one of the deadliest train accidents in canada's history took place in this town. it was ten miles from the u.s. border on july sixth two thousand and thirteen and one attended freight train carrying seventy two tanker cars filled with crude oil rolled away and the railed causing an unbelievable explosion that lit up the sky with hellish fireballs when all was said and done forty seven people lost their lives more than one million gallons of crude spilled on the streets and six city blocks were completely destroyed canadian prime minister stephen harper said that the city looked like a war zone but sadly this tragic event has done little to stop the exponential expansion of north america's oil by rail system and fact under harper's watch between two thousand and nine and two thousand and thirteen shipments of oil by rail increased from five hundred to one hundred sixty thousand carloads a year that's an increase of nearly thirty two thousand percent what's most

frightening however is that the rail tracks that run through loch modan tick were not at all equipped to carry hazardous materials and a subsequent investigation found that the type of crude on that fatal train was wrongly classified and was as flammable as unleaded gasoline now it's important to note that an april the government did remove five thousand of the most dangerous rail cars from canadian tracks and impose new regulations regarding the speed and structural integrity of the rail system but when it comes to the highly dangerous nature of this material these minor changes are a mere stopgap until the next disaster and here in the u.s. even these slight regulations when it comes to transporting crude by train are virtually nonexistent consider that between two thousand and nine and two thousand and thirteen the transportation of crude oil by train increased from about eleven thousand carloads to four hundred thousand and hundreds of these cars are the exact

same type of model and carrying the exact same type of crude as the train involved in the canadian explosion. but if you think that population centers in the u.s. are safe from these type of accidents they go again according to a recent study by the nonprofit group forest ethics over twenty five million americans live within the blast zone of an oil train explosion now i know many of you might be thinking this is exactly why massive pipeline projects like keystone x.l. need to be built but pipelines hardly guarantee the safety of people and the environment and so that according to investigation by global news alberta's pipeline system alone has averaged over to crude spills a day over the past thirty seven years that equates to over twenty eight thousand spills these types of leaks could be catastrophic for communities like mayflower arkansas where entire neighborhoods had to be evacuated after tar sands oil flooded the town. so if mitigating climate change preventing toxic destruction of fragile

ecosystems and an ending resource wars are enough to convince you that we need to rapidly wean ourselves off of this ancient black toxic goo and let this serve as another reason because at the end of the day there is no safe way to transport toxic sludge. the snowden leaks on the n.s.a. spying agenda has given the world a better understanding of exactly how the u.s. can government conducts surveillance on innocent civilians but thanks to a recent article by the intercepts we now know exactly who is being singled out by u.s. agencies the article highlights five prominent muslim americans from diverse backgrounds from academia to islamic rights organizations and now i'm joined by one of the men

targeted by saul gill a former homeland security official under the bush administration thank you. so much for coming on it honestly thank you so much for having me so how did you first find out that you were specifically targeted by the n.s.a. i received a call from glenn greenwald asking me if i could meet him somewhere in either in washington d.c. or new york i went to new york to meet him and that's where he told me that i was actually targeted by the n.s.a. and what was your initial reaction when you found out that it was just a shock i mean i couldn't believe it i didn't think why what i did. to arouse any suspicion or why i should be under such monitoring. it is particularly fascinating because unlike the other gentleman who the article exposed you held a top secret security clearance at the department of homeland security absolutely that's what shocked me the most mature years before this i was working in a highly classified environment i had an above top secret clearance at a top secret sci there were no issues there so and then just two years after that they're monitoring me so i just couldn't understand it that's why i was so shocked

and people are asking me are you angry are you upset now and i just think i can't get beyond being shocked it's all right you haven't got to be on a song good there's nothing in my background that would lead anybody to believe that i either harbor any terrorist feelings i'm a puppet of a foreign government or i'm taking any direction from foreign government or even have any contact with a foreign government outside of. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a flash flood warning for central chester county in southeastern pennsylvania this includes the city of westchester until twelve forty five am at nine forty seven pm last friday was reported from a thunderstorm out of the wind area locations in the warning include but are not

limited to downingtown line bill honey brook glenmore in chester springs excessive run from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams in areas highways streets and underpasses as well as other drainage areas and low lying spots be especially conscious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding flash flooding is observed that quickly moved up to higher ground to escape flood waters do not stay in areas subject to flooding when water begins rising. of course of of how you were being spied on or obviously the details of the probable cause that they're claiming absolutely the most frightening aspect of it all it's still being spied on and because when greenwald papers just go to two thousand and eight he never has anything that says ok the spying it stopped i was all clear now i can assume that i'm cleared because it would be the biggest waste of resources to spy on me and monitor my emails for seven years nothing has happened if i haven't done anything until this time you

know nothing is going to be there how do you think the information collected on you was used there's no there's nothing to be used i mean the information that was collected on me during the time i was running for a local state office in the state of virginia so people were e-mailing me about you know potholes and traffic and traffic lights things like that so there's e-mails between me and my friends saying we're going to go to dinner are you going to this event are you going to that event that's the kind of evils that i was engaged in there's absolutely nothing there now i have a law email that has clients but i do civil law i'm not a criminal lawyer i don't represent anybody who's on any sort of a terrorist watch list i do corporate law murders acquisitions things of that sort that's why it's so troubling to me that i'm on this list well you know we don't get into your background we're trying to find out why as well and the only thing that we really care across is something that you were cleared by the d.a. just for right years ago back in two thousand and three where someone that you were associated with was involved in this assassination attempt not even what you were supposed to do with that just very. loose affiliation right you were cleared by the

d.h. as i talk about those circumstances you know they accuse me as a who was the head of a muslim group that i was involved in the american muslim council he after i had left the american muslim council was arrested and basically tried and convicted for you know from assassinate to the crown prince of saudi arabia. my association with him was very minor and at the time that i met him every congressman was meeting him jim moran tom davis anybody nor. virginia was meeting he went to meet governor bush that time governor bush in the governor's mansion in austin texas so that's when i met him when every politician was meeting including the future president so we can assume that governor bush is also the heart of the little house and then i was cleared and so they said that i lot of my security clearance forms that i didn't disclose my association with the american muslim council which is absolutely false i disclose everything. that i disclose or you know this is also. a former

f.b.i. agent named john huang dolo and so that you played a major role in the muslim brotherhood he responded as guys claim it's absolute because i have never met anybody in the muslim brotherhood i'm not in the muslim brotherhood i've never gone to egypt i've never associated there has not been one statement at all but tributed to be espoused any violent views or any views of the most of brotherhood at all and i would not know them and i'm not i'm not he were affiliated with them sort of play a bigger role in the muslim brotherhood is absolutely ridiculous it does sound very inflammatory and baseless you know as you mentioned before and there's absolutely nothing in your past that could warrant this type of a green just surveillance which leads me to believe or i guess the question why you five i mean you all are muslim most of americans do you think that this fine has to do with religion i think i asked you i think it's a factor that we're almost them and we're all in actively involved one way or the

other in politics and in civic affairs and i think that somebody in the government is afraid of that doesn't want that to happen there's something going on there but yeah absolutely there is no other explanation it has to be because i am muslim and because i am active politically now this was a relatively small sample what i think was seven hundred names on a list that hadn't been disclosed you know given the. church committee preachers committee given the cointelpro surveillance that we know took place decades ago. with the capabilities that the n.s.a. has now america has now do you think this goes beyond spying on most americans not that we should be more has that that i'm just wondering what your views are on that absolutely i think there's the n.s.a. at this time can spy on anybody and basically any form of communication not just email to text messages and you know back in the old days that used to be that knew you'd go and sweep for a bug and everything like that and you'd say ok there's a bug there but now with the technology being it's all done through satellites and it's all done remotely so they can literally spy on anybody and when they talk

about probable cause in the files a court approves ninety nine percent of all the warm sort of presented to them so there's and that's a pretty high you know pretty high success rate eg dismay it makes no sense that ninety nine percent of the warrants would be approved by the voters of course so as they can spawn any form of communication anywhere regardless of whether you're an american citizen or not right and regardless of whether or not an american muslim or not right what's next for you i mean are you planning on taking legal action or not of this time in the main reason for that is i just don't think it would do any good i think the u.s. government the hysteria there they always talk about national security and there's always there's so many there's so many technicalities built in the law that i don't think that i'd be able to get anywhere awesome go for it tried a legal action before when he was surveilled without any sort of a warrant and that never got anywhere so i don't think this is going to get into what i'm really hoping happens is that the congress now looks at this and puts in the safeguards in place if you talking about their oversight authority they keep

talking about safeguards not hope to actually put safeguards in the so you know others aren't surveilled like i am and i think you know you're going to exemplify and how this whole probable cause notion is utterly shattered and they're sitting here right now there's no reason for you to be spied on or for our resources to be spent on final that's what i'm here right that's exactly right you know in theory it sounds great ok you're going to have probable cause going to make an application go take it to an independent judge in the independent judgment of valuated and then basically sign on. on it which is what the n.s.a. is saying but in practice it just is not working because the independent judge or whatever is being put in the affidavit is just being blindly signed off on the right it's clear that it's just our guys who is sort of you know a system when really you know they pick someone to sign up on everything thank you so much for coming on breaking it down if i saw gil attorney former homeland security official really push it come on thank you very much for your show much thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter at adding martin going to my winter break to start all over again.

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blow on thom hartmann in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture it's been more than five years as the housing bubble burst sending the financial industry and the economy into the worst downturn since the great depression but could a new even more dangerous crash be just over the horizon more on that just a moment also the u.a.w. has reached a deal that would allow it to form a union at chattanooga volkswagen run the last election at just five months ago could this be the spark the labor movement needs to reverse the losses of the past three decades and big oil executives and their mouthpieces in washington love to argue that no one green is a choice but they're flat out wrong renewable energy is our only option want to save the human race from a complete climate disaster so what can we do right now sure an energy secure future for america more on that that still take.